Came home from my appointment at the foot doc and found a big box (18"x18"x6") by my door. What was in it? My Digitrax DCS50 and 8 DZ125 decoders. After I go through the manual on this thing I'll see about hooking it up. Looking at the back of the unit it appears to be fairly easy. All those decoders will probably take a week to install unless I get on a really good roll, then I could knock them out in a day.
On my other project, shoehorning a Bachmann LH crossover into my yard area, I looked at the area and noticed right off that the tracks are way too far apart. I have two options. 1) Pull up a bunch of track and re-lay the front part of the inside loop so the tracks connect to the crossover, or 2) cut the crossover in two and work the two halves into their respective places in the passing siding and the inside loop and put in a straight piece of track to join them. In the following photos the choice I made will be immediately obvious. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain.
This is how the crossover started out:
And after being cut in two and trimmed:
The trackside shed (under the straight piece) and two of the turnouts will be removed. If the turnouts can be salvaged I may be able to use them elsewhere. If not, they'll be ripped out in pieces. The other two existing turnouts will have their diverging tracks cut and the points soldered in the through track position. This is gonna take a while.